(Sheriff)Lee: The black community is the problem

wwltv ^ | 10/27/06 | Ben Lemoine

[Blueflag]

OMG!

I need popcorn for this one.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Idiot called the comments saddening. How about calling the violence saddening? Here again, PC will prevent a real solution to the problem.
PC kills

[Niuhuru]

"King said the comments threatened the goodwill that Lee and the NAACP have exchanged."

Why does the NAACP think that the law has to answer to them, rather than they themselves answering to the law?

[Ron in Acreage]

Apparently Sheriff Lee is black or he would be lynched by the NAACP and the media. It's refreshing to hear someone so UnPC.

[CrawDaddyCA]

Sounds to me that Sheriff Lee is simply addressing the root of the crime problem in his parish. He's stuck with the New Orleans trash, and has decided it needs to be cleaned up.

[Ron in Acreage]

I was wrong. He's Asian.

[Ellesu]

Sheriff Harry Lee

[cajungirl]

Lee isn't black.

[winodog]

I would like to see more sheriffs tell the truth.

[Dead Corpse]

"Where there is smoke, there is fire..."

Too bad the idiot PC bucket brigade will spend so much time splashing water on everything OTHER THAN the fire while Rome burns.

[Disambiguator]

“The allegation will be true that we are only stopping black people, and I'm saying yes. And if that is offensive to the black community, we won't do it. And then they'll have to live with the continued shootings, the continued killings and the continued violence. And that's a choice they're going to have to make.”

This happened in Cincinnati.

[Charles Martel]

As the article mentions, Lee has done controversial stuff in the past. He's almost impervious to the "race card" because he's not white, and that allows him considerable latitude in dealing with the criminal element.

In addition to the previous incident, Lee has blocked streets that cross from Orleans into Jefferson Parish to cut down on "crossover" crime from New Orleans. He's also been known to use the media to his advantage. Some years ago, after public outcry that his officers were "stopping black residents without cause" - again in West Jeffeson Parish (Avondale, IIRC), Lee went on television and said that if the residents didn't care for his methods, he'd pull the police patrols out of those areas. Then he did just that, for a few weeks.

It was all a big set-up. The announced patrol reduction led to a big increase in drug-related crime... but Lee had undercover officers gathering evidence on all the drug-dealing scum that surfaced. When he pulled in the dragnet a few weeks later, the residents who had been complaining sure sounded sheepish.

I'll bet he's about to pull the same trick again.

[The Worthless Miracle]

There is something to what the sherriff is saying, racist though it may sound. In my wonderful town of Indianapolis, we're up now up there with DC in terms of murder, crime, etc. 9 times out of 10, it seems to be black on black and in the bad areas of town.

[Oberon]

Oh, that's unfortunate:

[MplsSteve]

Wow, call me stupid - but I've never thought of Indianapolis as being a high-crime city.

Tell me. Where are the bad areas of Indianapolis?

[Westlander]

I thought this was Sheriff Lee-

[The_Reader_David]

Actually there is something wrong with Sherriff Lee's comment. It is not the black community, but the black lack-of-community, that is the problem. If there were still a functioning civil society in poor majority black areas of the country, the crime rates among blacks would not be so high.

Chalk another one up to the liberal judges: the combination of the judicial decision that extended AFDC to unmarried women, which destroyed family formation among the poor, and decisions that created affirmative-action, destroying the need for racial minorities to compete on the basis of quality, and a host of decisions that coddle violent criminals, especially if they are members of racial minorities have created this situation.

[Kirkwood]

What is the alternative? Ignore the problem and let more blacks kill one another? Or take back the streets? Let's hope the prosecutor and judges get serious as well.

[Westlander]

At least he called a spade a spade.